Robert Layton obituary
Robert Layton obituary Brian Jarman My friend Robert Layton, who has died aged 90, was a musicologist and Radio 3 producer for more than 30 years who specialised in Scandinavian music and wrote biographies of Sibelius and the Swedish composer Franz Berwald. Bob was born in Chadwell Heath, east London, the younger child of Edward Layton, a stockbroker, and his wife, Rhoda (nee Aaron), a homemaker. He learned the piano from the age of nine, and excelled at it by the time he was 11. He gave a piano recital of Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau on the BBC Third Programme in 1948, when he was...
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